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Thu, 17 Jul 2008

Breadtopia: Heavenly Bread Making Blog, With Easy, No-Knead, Artisan Bread

Breadtopia is a heavenly bread baking support site - blog actually - for breadmaking, complete with excellent bread and pizza recipes, accompanied by video tutorials, recommended bread cookbooks, and a full line of bread-making supplies.

Eric and Denyce Rush started Breadtopia to share their passion for bread with the world. What sets Breadtopia apart is that it's a truly interactive site, driven by their above-and-beyond attitude.

It's all in the details: Complete, easy, thoroughly tested bread recipes; relaxed, easy-to-follow bread making video tutorials; Eric's friendly, knowledgable responses to the posted comments, and the posters themselves.

The posted comments are a very useful feature of Breadtopia, full of the posters' helpful tips, shared passion for bread, and enthusiastic appreciation for Breadtopia. There were no less than 398 comments on the no-knead bread recipe! Eric links to the best comments and adds them to the recipes.

Future Trends: I noticed that Breadtopia had a great looking recipe for Moist Whole Wheat Banana Bread, using baking soda. It called for butter, eggs, and honey, but could easily be made vegan using veggie spread or oil, agave nectar or corn syrup, and a little extra banana in place of the eggs.

There was also Denyce's yummy strawberry rhubarb pie recipe, which Eric nominates as The Ultimate Food. Just use a vegan pie crust and skip the egg wash, to make it The Ultimate Vegan Food.

I'm hoping that Breadtopia will soon branch out into unyeasted flat breads, which I love - polenta, chapatis, puris, naan bread, tortillas, etc.

If you've always wanted to whip up professional quality, divinely delicious artisan bread for pennies and almost no effort - Breadtopia is the place to go.